The Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Computing and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will create a program that will provide high school educators with the exposure, materials, and skills necessary to prepare our future workforce and to foster student interest in materials science and engineering, while integrating African art design and storytelling. The purpose of the program is to utilize summer research programs for teachers and undergraduate students interested in teaching to form a team and create lesson plans for high school Art and Science classes. Once these lessons are created they can be shared at a workshop for art and science teachers in collaboration with the Woodruff Professional Learning Program for Teachers.  The goals of the Origins Program are to 1) Increase the general public’s awareness of nanotechnology and sustainability, 2) Integrate nanotechnology and African art in the classroom, 3) Increase the public awareness of the evolution of materials found in African art and design.